Abstract:

The importance of having good reading skills in learning a foreign language is unquestionable. It is observed that students with more developed reading and comprehension skills also show more success in other skill areas such as speaking, writing, and listening. Since reading skills feed other skill areas, it has become more important and draws attention to reading materials. There are many resources that are helpful in developing reading skills for learning Turkish as a foreign language. These include textbooks, reading books appropriate for language levels that come with education sets, newspapers, brochures, etc. Although one of the foundational resources for developing the reading-comprehension skills for students learning Turkish as a foreign language are textbooks, these lesson books reduces the motivation of students over time; creating a need to stimulate the motivation of students with different teaching sources. One of these different sources for motivation is Turkish newspapers. This study has examined how using newspapers develop the reading and compression skills in other countries for learning second languages as well as learning Turkish as a foreign language while including example applications.

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